Peter, This all depends on whether the UTC approves, at the upcoming meeting in August, the proposal to extend the use of CGJ to allow for inclusion within sequences of combining marks in order to prevent reordering of those marks.
Of course, it could be used right now for that purpose, in the sense that it would have that effect, and there is nothing in TUS that would prevent its usage. But, as you point out, it would be far better if the semantics of the character were explicitly extended so that it was clear to people that this is a recommended usage. Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► “Eppur si muove” ◄ ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 08:12 Subject: Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew > > Peter Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/23/2003 09:55:02 AM: > > > Peter C, I guess that when you wrote this you had not yet seen my > > posting pointing out that in Unicode 4.0 developers are obliged to > > "implement" CGJ, quite apart from Hebrew, as a "default ignorable > > character", > > Unicode does not ever oblige developers to implement support for any given > character, including CGJ. But *if* a developer is going to implement > support for CGJ, they may not want to do so just for rendering purposes, > and they probably want to ensure that something done with Biblical Hebrew > in mind doesn't hurt what they've done for other scripts. Sometimes things > that seem to us as simple as saying "just do such-and-such" are not quite > that simple to the people actually maintaining a large code base. > > > > - Peter > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- > Peter Constable > > Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International > 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA > Tel: +1 972 708 7485 > > > > >
